Category: PhD
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Mixed update
I laughed at the title I just wrote – Mixed Update! Hahaha everything seems very mixed at the moment! Everything I tell you! I spent $200 to buy a better coffee machine for the staff room and no one uses it. That probably explains why no one has said thank-you. Recruitment has officially started for…
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Term 1 Orientation
Today is the main day for STEPS students Orientation for Term 1 here at CQUniversity. Orientation always makes me reflect on my own journey and it’s good because I have come a long way from when I first stepped foot on the Gippsland Campus of Monash University. Long way! But the journey has been hard…
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So far… So… So… something!
My RTP scholarhip/Stipend kicked in on the 8th of January and I have been working on my PhD full-time since then. I WOULD say so far so good but that is not 100% correct. I should admit right now that I am not 100% clear on what goes in what section of my PhD thesis.…
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Welcome to 2024!
This morning I am reviewing a book chapter for an edited book that feels like it is running about a year behind! We submitted our chapter in March 2023 at which time I volunteered to also review someone else’s chapter. My due date for the review is Jan 31st with authors set to recieve feedback…
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Winner! Winner!
Well life is about to be turned up-side-down for me! I will be withdrawing from all the amazing projects which I am a part of unless they are near to completed. I will continue to be the SIG leader for the Self-Efficacy group within NAEEA but I will give up my leadership role in the…
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The other half!
So last time I wrote an update on the status of most of my projects but not my PhD because there have been some ethical issues. I have had plenty of time to reflect on those so I am going to attempt to speak about it. My PhD is going to have participants from the…
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Half an update!
It has been a while so I’m just going to attempt to write an update on anything and everything! Perhaps one journal article at a time! The hard part is I can’t remember what I have written previously and what I haven’t! Apologies if there is repetetion! I actually don’t have time to get into…
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Ethics ahoy!
Life outside of work and study has been hectic and, well let’s just say “bumpy” but work has been going exceptionally well. I was offered 10 additional hours per week for 6 weeks. This is going to help my bank balance so of course I said yes. The down side is that the 10 hours…
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Student Grief – Such a worthy topic!
Yesterday I read an amazing autoethnography by Alexandra Ridgway which is called “Love, loss and a doctorate: an autoethnography of grieving while writing a PhD.” Would recommend! Here’s the DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2021.2019202 As my father passed away during my undergraduate degree (and my mum 7 years later, less than a year before I started my PhD)…
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Random thoughts on Self-Efficacy
I keep seeing statements in published articles about enabling students, or equity group students, students that belong to some form of “disadvantaged” background, etc where they state (as if it was just a fact) that these students have low self-efficacy or LOWER than other student groups. Some of them have a reference to back this…
Equity in higher education - An Australian researcher 